The Doctoral programme “Strategic Management and International Business” includes a complete proposal of training activities aimed at improving and advancing the training of students in theoretical, scientific, methodological, practical and procedural areas.
Our educational offer has been designed to facilitate coordination between the different activities offered and coherence with the doctoral students’ training profile, with the ultimate aim of satisfying the requirements for skills sought by this programme. On the other hand, consideration has been given to the suitability of those activities to the specific situation of part-time students and those with special needs.
Our Doctoral programme offers a series of mobility actions, designed for the programme as a whole. These mobility actions are an opportunity for the doctoral student to learn about other international research centres, participate in scientific conferences, create collaboration networks with foreign researchers, develop their group work skills, and explore both the methodological field and the specific lines of research that make up the current doctoral programme.
The training activities that make up our doctoral programme are divided into four basic categories:
- Theoretical and scientific training seminars (DETAILS BELOW)
- Methodological training seminars (DETAILS BELOW)
- Practical and procedural training seminars (DETAILS BELOW)
- Attendance and participation in conferences (DETAILS BELOW)
According to the offer of educational actions, we propose the following monitoring and assistance guidelines.
- The doctoral student must do at least two of the theoretical and scientific training seminars.
- The doctoral student must do three of the basic methodological training seminars.
- The doctoral student must do at least three of the six advanced methodological training seminars.
- The doctoral student must do at least one of the practical and procedural training seminars.
- The student must participate in the annual doctoral research seminar organised by the programme.
- The student must attend at least one national research seminar and take part in at least one national conference.
- The student will be encouraged to attend and take part in at least one international conference.
1. Training Activities. Organisation.
Theoretical and scientific training seminars
| Name | Seminar on advanced lines of research in international strategy |
| Duration | 15 hours |
| Type | Specific training. Theoretical and scientific training. |
| Contents | · International Entrepreneurship · Global factory: Entrepreneurial network structures for global competitiveness · Knowledge management in multinationals for adaptation to global markets · International portfolio management from a dynamic point of view |
| Time planning | Seminar to be taught during the first or second semester of the doctorate programme |
| Learning achievements | Doctoral students will acquire a comprehensive view of the following advanced lines of research in the international strategy area |
| Language | Spanish / English |
| Control procedure | In-person attendance of seminars by doctoral students and performance of the suggested activities that will be evaluated and registered in the doctoral student’s individual directory document |
| Name | Seminar on advanced lines of research in information systems and knowledge management |
| Duration | 15 hours |
| Type | Specific training. Theoretical and scientific training. |
| Contents | · Technology acceptance models · Information systems efficacy models · The relationship between the organisational culture and information and knowledge management systems · Knowledge management processes and generation of dynamic skills · Optimisation of knowledge management processes in joint ventures and mergers. |
| Time planning | Seminar to be taught during the first or second semester of the doctoral programme. |
| Learning achievements | Doctoral students will acquire a comprehensive view of the following advanced lines of research in the information and knowledge management systems. |
| Language | Spanish / English |
| Control procedure | In-person attendance of seminars by doctoral students and performance of the suggested activities that will be evaluated and registered in the doctoral student’s individual directory document |
| Name | Seminar on advanced lines of research in marketing strategies, value management and consumer behaviour |
| Duration | 15 hours |
| Type | Specific training. Theoretical and scientific training. |
| Contents | · Portfolio optimisation · Cocreation of value strategies with the client: effect on loyalty. · Customers’ benchmark behaviour: quantification of their life value/profitability. · Marketing strategy management and implementation of CRM programmes on the value of the customer portfolio · Lost customer recovery programmes |
| Time planning | Seminar to be taught during the first or second semester of the Doctoral programme |
| Learning achievements | Doctoral students will acquire a comprehensive vision of the main lines of research in the area of value management and consumer behaviour |
| Language | Spanish / English |
| Control procedure | In-person attendance of seminars by doctoral students and performance of the suggested activities that will be evaluated and registered in the doctoral student’s individual directory document |
| Name | Seminar on advanced lines of research in Accountancy, Finances and operations/production management |
| Duration | 15 hours |
| Type | Specific training. Theoretical and scientific training. |
| Contents | · Advances in research into operations · Advances in research into accountancy · Advances in research into finances |
| Time planning | Seminar to be taught during the first or second semester of the Doctorat programme. |
| Learning achievements | Doctoral students will acquire a comprehensive vision of the main lines of research in the areas of operations, accountancy and finances |
| Language | Spanish / English |
| Control procedure | In-person attendance of seminars by doctoral students and performance of the suggested activities that will be evaluated and registered in the doctoral student’s individual directory document |
Methodological training seminars
| Name | Basic methodological seminar: exploration phase in the scientific research process |
| Duration | 15 hours |
| Type | Cross-cutting training. Methodological training. |
| Contents | · The research idea · Approach of the research problem: objectives, questions and justification of the study · Preparing the theoretical framework · Establishing the scope of the research: exploratory, descriptive and explanatory · Drawing hypotheses |
| Time planning | Seminar to be taught during the first or second semester of the Doctoral programme |
| Learning achievements | Doctoral students will acquire a comprehensive vision of the stages that make up the exploration part of the research process |
| Language | Spanish / English |
| Control procedure | In-person attendance of seminars by doctoral students and performance of the suggested activities that will be evaluated and registered in the doctoral student’s individual directory document |
| Name | Basic methodological seminar: design phase of the investigation in the scientific research process |
| Duration | 15 hours |
| Type | Cross-cutting training. Methodological training. |
| Contents | · Types of research design: experimental and non-experimental · Research methods: quantitative, qualitative, multimethod approaches · Construct operationalisation process · Sampling strategy |
| Time planning | Seminar to be taught during the first or second semester of the Doctoral programme |
| Learning achievements | Doctoral students will acquire a comprehensive vision of the stages that make up the planning part of the research process |
| Language | Spanish / English |
| Control procedure | In-person attendance of the seminar by doctoral students and performance of the suggested activities that will be evaluated and registered in the doctoral student’s individual directory document |
| Name | Basic methodological seminar: execution phase of the research in the scientific research process |
| Duration | 15 hours |
| Type | Cross-cutting training. Methodological training. |
| Contents | · Pilot test · Data collection strategies: experimental research, survey-based research, case based research, other qualitative research · Data analysis: qualitative analysis, quantitative descriptive analysis, quantitative inferential analysis |
| Time planning | Seminar to be taught during the first or second semester of the Doctoral programme |
| Learning achievements | Doctoral students will acquire a comprehensive vision of the stages that make up the execution part of the research process |
| Language | Spanish / English |
| Control procedure | In-person attendance of the seminar by doctoral students and performance of the suggested activities that will be evaluated and registered in the doctoral student’s individual directory document |
| Name | Advanced methodological seminar: Qualitative research methods |
| Duration | 15 hours |
| Type | Cross-cutting training. Methodological training. |
| Contents | · Qualitative research: Case study · Interpretative case studies · Positivist case studies · Other qualitative research techniques: · Research – action · Ethnography · Phenomenology · Grounded theory · Hermeneutics · Qualitative analysis · Coding techniques · Content analysis |
| Time planning | Seminar to be taught during the second semester of the Doctoral programme. The seminar will be taught during evenings after 18:00 to enable attendance of part-time students. |
| Learning achievements | Doctoral students will acquire a comprehensive vision of the various types of qualitative research and qualitative analysis techniques. |
| Language | Spanish / English |
| Control procedure | In-person attendance of seminars by doctoral students and performance of the suggested activities that will be evaluated and registered in the doctoral student’s individual control document |
| Name | Advanced research seminar: Data collection through surveys |
| Duration | 15 hours |
| Type | Cross-cutting training. Methodological training. |
| Contents | · Questionnaire design · Interview-based surveys · Validity and reliability · Treatment of bias in interview-based surveys |
| Time planning | Seminar to be taught during the second semester of the Doctoral programme. The seminar is taught during evenings after 18:00 to enable attendance of part-time students. |
| Learning achievements | Doctoral students will acquire a comprehensive view of the following areas related to survey-based data collection |
| Language | Spanish / English |
| Control procedure | In-person attendance of seminars by doctoral students and performance of the suggested activities that will be evaluated and registered in the doctoral student’s individual directory document |
| Name | Advanced research seminar: Quantitative descriptive analysis |
| Duration | 15 hours |
| Type | Cross-cutting training. Methodological training. |
| Contents | · Data preparation · Univariate analysis · Bivariate analysis |
| Time planning | Seminar to be taught during the second semester of the Doctoral programme. The seminar will be taught during evenings after 18:00 to enable attendance of part-time students. |
| Learning achievements | Doctoral students will acquire a comprehensive view of quantitative techniques for descriptive purposes |
| Language | Spanish / English |
| Control procedure | In-person attendance of seminars by doctoral students and performance of the suggested activities that will be evaluated and registered in the doctoral student’s individual control document |
| Name | Advanced research seminar: Quantitative inferential analysis |
| Duration | 15 hours |
| Type | Cross-cutting training. Methodological training. |
| Contents | · General lineal model · Comparisons by group pairs · Factorial designs · Other quantitative analyses · Factorial analysis · Discriminant analysis · Logistic regression · Probit regression · Time series analysis |
| Time planning | Seminar to be taught during the second semester of the Doctoral programme. The seminar will be taught during evenings after 18:00 to enable attendance of part-time students. |
| Learning achievements | Doctoral students will acquire a comprehensive view of quantitative techniques for inferential purposes |
| Language | Spanish / English |
| Control procedure | In-person attendance of seminars by doctoral students and performance of the suggested activities that will be evaluated and registered in the doctoral student’s individual control document |
| Name | Advanced research seminar: Covariance-based structural equation models |
| Duration | 15 hours |
| Type | Cross-cutting training. Methodological training. |
| Contents | · Model and specification development · Measurement model evaluation · Structural model evaluation · Statistical adjustment · Use of AMOS, LISREL, EQS programmes |
| Time planning | Seminar to be taught during the second semester of the Doctoral programme. The seminar will be taught during evenings after 18:00 to enable attendance of part-time students. |
| Learning achievements | Doctoral students will acquire a comprehensive view of the co-variance based structural equation models and of their practical application by means of specific software programmes. |
| Language | Spanish / English |
| Control procedure | In-person attendance of seminars by doctoral students and performance of the suggested activities that will be evaluated and registered in the doctoral student’s individual control document |
| Name | Advanced research seminar: Variance-based structural equation models Partial Least Squares – PLS) |
| Duration | 15 hours |
| Type | Cross-cutting training. Methodological training. |
| Contents | · Conditions for application of PLS · Measurement model evaluation · Structural model evaluation · Advanced PLS research designs: · Multidimensional variables · Moderation analysis · Mediation analysis · Use of PLS-Graph, Smart-PLS, XLSTAT programmes |
| Time planning | Seminar to be taught during the second semester of the Doctoral programme. The seminar will be taught during evenings after 18:00 to enable attendance of part-time students. |
| Learning achievements | Doctoral students will acquire a comprehensive view of variance-based structural equation models and their practical application by means of specific software programmes. |
| Language | Spanish / English |
| Control procedure | In-person attendance of seminars by doctoral students and performance of the suggested activities that will be evaluated and registered in the doctoral student’s individual control document |
Practical and procedural training seminars
| Name | Practical seminar: Research document preparation |
| Duration | 15 hours |
| Type | Cross-cutting training. Practical and procedural training. |
| Contents | · Writing the research proposal · Writing the research report |
| Time planning | Seminar to be taught during the second semester of the Doctoral programme. The seminar will be taught during evenings after 18:00 to enable attendance of part-time students. |
| Learning achievements | Doctoral students will acquire a comprehensive view of writing up key documents for the research process: preparing the proposal and creating the final research report. |
| Language | Spanish / English |
| Control procedure | In-person attendance of seminars by doctoral students and performance of the suggested activities that will be evaluated and registered in the doctoral student’s individual control document |
| Name | Practical seminar: Use of databases in business science research |
| Duration | 9 hours |
| Type | Cross-cutting training. Practical and procedural training. |
| Contents | · Bibliographic databases · Scopus · Business Source premier (EBSCO) · ABI/INFORM Complete (ProQuest) · ISI Web of Science · TESEO · Databases · SABI: Iberian Balance Sheet Analysis System · Marketline · ASEP/JDS data bank · INE base · Demographic database for bibliographic management · RefWorks · EndNote |
| Time planning | Seminar to be taught during the second semester of the Doctoral programme. The seminar will be taught during evenings after 18:00 to enable attendance of part-time students. |
| Learning achievements | Doctoral students will acquire a comprehensive view of the databases available available for research and the use made of these. |
| Language | Spanish / English |
| Control procedure | In-person attendance of seminars by doctoral students and performance of the suggested activities that will be evaluated and registered in the doctoral student’s individual control document |
| Name | Doctoral research seminars |
| Duration | 5 hours |
| Type | Cross-cutting training. |
| Contents | · Annual meeting of all the doctoral students on the programme during which students’ research, the progress made and results achieved will be presented. |
| Time planning | Seminar to be taught during the first or second semester of the Doctorate programme. |
| Learning achievements | Students will develop skills to present the results of their research |
| Language | Spanish / English |
| Control procedure | In-person attendance of seminars by doctoral students and performance of the suggested activities that will be evaluated and registered in the doctoral student’s individual control document |
Mobility actions: The mobility actions in this doctoral programme have been designed for the programme as a whole. The purpose of these mobility actions is to enable doctoral students to develop research skills to achieve the proposed objectives. The proposed objectives include the following:
1º.- Foster attendance of research workshops at national and international conferences. We propose the following:
- Doctoral Workshop in Business Strategy. Spanish Academy of Management (ACEDE)
- Accounting Research Seminar. Spanish Accounting and Business Administration Association (AECA)
- Hispano-Portuguese Conference on Scientific Management workshops
- Doctoral Colloquium. European Academy of Management (EURAM)
- European Accounting Association (EAA) Doctoral Colloquium
2º. Foster attendance and presentations at national and international scientific conferences. We propose the following:
National conferences
- National conference of the Spanish Academy of Management (ACEDE)
- National conference of the European Academy of Management and Business Economics (AEDEM)
- National marketing conference – Spanish Association of Academic and Professional Marketing (AEMARK)
- Hispano-Portuguese Conferences on Scientific Management
- National conference of the Spanish Accounting and Business Administration Association (AECA)
International conferences
- The Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
- European Academy of Management (EURAM) Annual Conference
- The annual INBAM Conference. International Network of Business & Management Journals
- European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
- International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
- Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
- The European Conference on Knowledge Management – ECKM
- European Accounting Association (EAA) Annual Congress
- European Marketing Academy (EMAC Conference)
Moreover, the Doctoral programme, by means of the Academic Committee and the tutors or doctoral thesis supervisors, will encourage doctoral students to undertake research stays at other national or international universities and research centres, which can make a significant contribution to the progress of the research skills of the doctoral students, as well as the development of their doctoral theses. The measure seeks to encourage international doctorate mention of the thesis. Particularly, the development of stays in theses co-supervised by foreign lecturers collaborating with the Doctoral programme shall be sought. In this regard, it will receive support from the University of Seville through its international agreements with other universities and research centres, and its internationalisation activities. The research projects linked to the Doctoral programme may accept some doctoral students as researchers in training to facilitate funding of these stays.